> Working swap would do me to fix this, but sadly rlimits would probably > be easier to implement.
There's an intrinsic belief that there cannot be anything wrong with Plan 9's swap. Having encountered the rather tightly embedded use of swap/segmentation/etc. in the Plan 9 kernel, but without having explored it to any extent, I'm beginning to see where the faith principle comes from. Before anyone can be convinced to "fix" swap, it is imperative to be able to supply a reproducible error case. The virtual memory management is too persuasive to be broken in any significant way. ++L
